Dr.Zhang received a PhD in Computer Science from TAMU in 2005. Her general area of research is distributed multi-agent systems. Her research interests include intelligent agent and multi-agent systems, uncertainty in AI, decision theory, machine learning, human-computer interaction, knowledge representation and modeling, and robotics automation and tele-operation. Her research is supported by NSF, ACS (Association of Colleges in South), CUR (Council On Undergraduate Research), Trinity University and other programs.